What do the Academy Awards represent?
Last night was the 94th annual Academy Awards.
Where CODA took home best picture, Ariana DeBose made history as first openly queer woman of color, and first afro-Latina, to win an academy award for acting. She took home best supporting actress for her role as Anita in West Side Story. And Will Smith won best actor for his role in King Richard.
But, did the academy voters get it right?
If the Oscars are meant to represent the best of the year, the things that really get at what we were thinking and feeling in 2021, did this year’s winners succeed?
Soundside guest host Zaki Hamid spoke to Kathy Fennessy about the subject. She’s a film critic and writer for video librarian and the Seattle film blog, and a trustee on the board of the Seattle film critics society.
Hear their full conversation by clicking the audio above.
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Zaki Barak Hamid
Director of Community Engagement
Zaki leads the Community Engagement department, whose main goal is to facilitate connections between the various communities of the Puget Sound area and the content division, so that KUOW's news coverage is more holistic and informed by listeners' needs. His favorite programs include initiatives that facilitate understanding between people who might disagree with each other, such as StoryCorp's One Small Step.
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Sarah Leibovitz
Supervising Producer, Soundside
Sarah joined KUOW in 2019 as senior producer on The Record. She is now Supervising KUOW’s new noon time show, Soundside. Prior to working at KUOW, Sarah was lead producer at the Seattle podcast production company Larj Media, and a teaching artist with Path with Art.
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